05.07.2024
‘Synthetic Intelligence: Non secular Good friend or Foe?’
2024 Theological Lecture at Queen’s now obtainable on-line
This
yr’s Annual Theological Lecture at Queen’s College Belfast – on
the theme of ‘Synthetic Intelligence: Non secular Good friend or Foe?’ – is
now obtainable to play again on the Church of Eire and Methodist
Chaplaincy’s YouTube channel. A two–minute preview
may be discovered at www.thehubbelfast.org/annuallecture
and the direct hyperlink to the video is https://youtu.be/5GGZuoZSAs0
The
lecture, sponsored by the Church of Eire Board of Schooling
(Northern Eire), was delivered within the Nice Corridor at Queen’s on
Monday, twenty seventh Might, by Professor Stephen Williams. Professor Williams is a
theologian, writer and lecturer who, after retiring from
a instructing profession, was appointed Honorary Professor of Theology at
Queen’s in 2017.
The
title is provocative: synthetic intelligence means multiple
factor; there are totally different non secular traditions; and ‘pal or foe’ could
be false alternate options. Admitting the complexity of the problems, the
lecture units out the problem of AI to our understanding
of what it’s to be human, highlighting its crucial nature. It ranges
from dialogue of the character of the mind within the context of Western
tradition and the importance of the Church in an try and reply the
query posed within the title.
Since
1957, the Church of Eire has organised annual lectures at Queen’s to
stimulate and contribute to the dialogue of public theology on
campus. Visitor lecturers, usually eminent thinkers of their area,
have ranged from theologians to scientists, authors
to archbishops. The Board of Schooling stays grateful to Queen’s
College for its contribution in internet hosting the lectures annually.
